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Remove list of recent files

How can the list of "Open a recent file" be emptied?


Ron Teutsch


4 Answers

Voted Best Answer

Even on Windows, using the registry is overkill. You can do the following:

Open up preferences (Cmd-,) and select the "Documents" category. Here you will find "Documents in recently used list", change this number to 1. This will get rid of all but the last opened document. Then open some document that can remain in the list (e.g. go to http://samplepdf.com and download the sample and open it). Then go back to preferences and adjust the number of documents you want it to be able to see in the list.

This also works on Windows.

If you really want to get rid of the list without having to go into preferences twice, this information is also stored in the comadobe.Acrobat.Pro.plist file (as 11>AVGeneral>Recent Files). But as usual with editing system files, don't be surprised if things don't work anymore after you make a change. The format of this file is not documented (the same for the Windows registry), and we don't know what can be safely removed from the file.

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By Karl Heinz Kremer   

  1. Open regedit
  2. Navigate to "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\10.0\AVGeneral\cRecentFiles"
  3. Delete any subkeys you find there to clear out old history
  4. In the left pane, right click on "cRecentFiles" & select "Permissions"
  5. Click "Advanced"
  6. Untick "Include inheritable permissions ..." & click "Add" when the dialog is displayed
  7. Select the entry corresponding to your user name on the list & click "Remove"
  8. Click "OK" twice & you are good to go
Thanks,
Sheraz


Sheraz Hussain   

Snow Leopard please, not Windoze.


Ron Teutsch   

1. Open Preferences... from Edit Menu (ctrl + k)



2. Select Documents from righ side category -- > Documents in recently used list. Make this number as '0' (zero) and click OK. Your recent list has been deleted.

You can change this number as you wish for recent file list. I think, it should be same in all version of Adobe Acrobat.



Thank You


Mohammad Jameel   

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